As this piece in Techsoup's NetSquared blog shares, events that actively encourage, facilitate, and support the development and ongoing health of collabortions among both kindred and disparate groups are springing up, in places like British Columbia, Paris, and our Radical Collaboration event in San Franicsco coming up next week.
We're glad for all the publicity our radical collaboration with GenGreen, Creative Citizen, and others has been getting, but it's particularly gratifying to hear directly from a blogger whose business has already been listed on GenGreen, and will likely tremendously benefit from being part of our newly combined largest green business/services mobile directory in North A
We were honored when Elephant Journal gave us generous room to talk about something we've long held as vital to continued progress on greening up the planet, its people, its businesses and its government - radical collaboration.
In an industry first, 3rdWhale is proud to have
become the first mobile app developer to become a member of 1% For The Planet, so we decided to go a lot further, donating 25 cents of every app sold, distributed to 5 different environmental NGOs, two of which we selected, and the other three entirely determined by nominations then voting from
Mother Nature News, a long time fan and frequent supporter of 3rdWhale, was again first to break the news that we were donating a good portion of each sale of our green mobile app, something unprecedented in the industry. It also hits on the odd quandry that Apples at times nonsensical App store rules creates:
3rdWhale CEO Boyd Cohen was one of the judges of Sustainable Brands Conference's inaugural New Venture Exchange, a chance for green startups other then the much hyped cleantech sector to get their time in the spotlight. Rather then be a passive participant, he offered up an amazing prize:
The 3rdWhale green mobile app made a big step forward to its goal of "mobilizing the green revolution" when it partnered with Creative Citizen, incorpor
Max Gladwell, long a champion of the intersection of sustainability and social media, chose to include us in an unprecedented experiment: Coordinate the simultaneous publication of an article on as many sites as possible.
3rdWhale is glad to share it's coding prowess with others, creating green mobile apps for the likes of Greenpeace. In this case, their first app, designed to help people find and choose the greenest toilet and facial tissue, ironically on an iPhone, made by the company they've long held as not green enough.
Even a few years back, who would have thought you could use your phone to shop for sustainable toilet paper? And that Greenpeace would purposely create a green mobile app for an Apple made device? CNET's Crave breaks it down:
